Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:08:11 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com>, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trying to move /usr Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070820160602.0264a8c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <508113.84269.qm@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <d7195cff0708201015n3acdd927t915c99f1d38798e7@mail.gmail.com> <508113.84269.qm@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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At 12:37 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote:
>I reverted to the old /usr.
>What I had done:
>Initially I set up the newly installed drive (da2)
>to have only one partition (da2s1d) which I chose to
>be /user (note the e).
>I tarred /usr to a file in /user
>tar -cf /user/usr.tar /tar
>
>and extracted the file
>tar -xf usr.tar
>I had the whole structure of /usr underneath /user/usr
>
>And then
>cd usr
>mv * ..
>
>to have everything under /user
>
>Then I edited fstab. Whatever was /user became /usr
>and /usr became /user.
>
>I will definitely try dump. Never used it before.
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Michael
Michael,
To use tar properly for this operation:
cd /usr
tar -cvf /user/usr.tar .
cd /user
tar -xvpf ./usr.tar
Then you can switch the mount points and all should work.
-Derek
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